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Leaders in the field of mental health will meet in Mayo on May 17 and 18 next to meet providers, service users, carers, and family members and to overview the services and share information on how inclusion at all levels, clinical, operational, and strategic is being promoted within the service.

It is almost 30 years since Fine Gael last won two seats in Galway West and the party has never come close to repeating that success in any election since those lofty days of the early 1980s.

A city family addressed an Oireachtas committee yesterday (Wednesday) calling on the Minister for Social Protection to amend existing legislation so that the deaths of Irish citizens abroad may be registered at home in Ireland.

Student artist Daniel Henry (5) who is a pupil at St Joseph’s PS, Athlone pictured with his painting entitled ‘Watermelon Delight’ which won him second prize and a cheque for €125 in the six years and under age category in this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

The Labour Party holds its annual conference in Galway this weekend, so Insider thought it worthwhile to take a closer look at Galway’s political alternative.

“We cannot fix the economy without fixing the political system as well,” is a familiar refrain in Irish political discourse these days. The calamity of the economic collapse and the role of the political and associated systems in bringing it about, or at least in failing to act to prevent it, have focused minds on this matter.

THE PATRICIAN Musical Society’s production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, held last week in the Town Hall Theatre, was a feast of colour, fun, and wonderful songs.

Next week will see local theatre group KATS return to the stage with a series of one-act plays to take place one after the other in Cleere’s Theatre for a four night stand.

Sometimes you come across quality TV by chance. And when you do, you end up sitting in awe that the opinions you’re hearing could be formed, and such words broadcast.

Local TD Denis Naughten was last week appointed by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny to a key economic role within the party as chairperson of the parliamentary party’s Economic and Business Affairs Committee.